true heath

Questions about true heath

What does true heath mean?

true heath means "any plant of the genus Erica".

What is another word for true heath?

Close synonyms include erica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is true heath a common word?

true heath is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.